Vehicle-seat



(No Model.)

J. E. SCOTT.

VEHICLE SEAT.

No. 480,144. Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JASPER EDI/VIN SCOTT, OF MEADVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

VEHICLE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,144, dated August 2, 1892.

Application filed December 23, 1891. Serial No. 415,991. (No model.)

lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in car and vehicle seats; and it consists in the novel construction oftheback-support, whereby the latter is afforded a yielding movement in relation to the seat-bottom, all of which will be more fully described hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The object of my invention is to provide the seat with a spring or yielding back, thus relieving the occupant of much of the jolting movement which in the case of a rigid back would be communicated directly to him.

. Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved seat. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detached view of the baclcsupports.

A indicates the seat-bottom, which maybe supported on the vehicle-body in any preferred manner. The supports of the back B are each formed of a single piece of spring rod or bar. The ends of each of the said supports are bent at right angles to each other and to the central or horizontal portions thereof. The vertical ends 0 support the back B. At the angles of the vertical end 0 and the horizontal or central portion D are formed the coils E, which are in reality part of the horizontal portions. The parts D of the respective supports extend in opposite directions to each other and through the coils E, thus interlocking the supports, as shown. The horizontal angular ends F extend across the opposite ends of the seat A, forming side rails therefor and to which they are secured by the loops G, the loops H serving as guides and supports for the horizontal portions D. Thus it will be seen that the parts F of the said support extend along one end of the seatbottom and finally terminate in the vertical spring-arm C, to which the opposite endof the back is secured. The parts interlocking as they do by means of the coils are held rigidly in place, While at the same time the vertical arms 0 are allowed a pivotal or yielding movement on the horizontal portion D of the opposite member.

By means of the herein-described construction a very strong yielding back is provided, in which the spring elements are very compact and entirely out of the way.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The combination, with a seat-bottom and overlapping rails secured thereto, of a coil at.

each of the overlapping ends which encircle the rail which it overlaps, arms projecting from the said coils, and a back supported by the arms, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof Iaffix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

JASPER EDIVIN SCOTT.

lVitnesses:

R. S. BUTLER STIEF, J. M. IIALFORD. 

